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We are a group of professionals from a wide range of organizations and perspectives who are dedicated to addressing challenges to meeting the country's food and nutrition security goals - household agricultural production, food-related social safety nets, food safety, and dietary diversification.
The Food and Nutrition Security Community is facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and co-facilitated by Nutrition Foundation of India (NFI), and is moderated by a Resource Team comprised of Mr. Gopi N Ghosh, Resource Person and Ms. T. N. Anuradha, Research Associate. Click here for the welcome message from the Facilitators, and click here for the message from the Resource Team.
Community Highlights It is estimated that about one fourth of India's population of 1.2 billion suffer from chronic undernutrition, despite widespread efforts to reduce their plight. The basic premise of the Food and Nutrition Security Community (FNS) thus stems from these myriad developmental challenges with the focused objective of making development more effective. Over the last nearly three years' of its existence, the FNS community has built up a valuable repository of shared knowledge covering a wide range of issues critical to food and nutrition. Its a platform to talk to each other in attempting to bridge the significant gap between research priorities and grassroots problems and in effecting focused and positive collaboration to co-create new form knowledge that must transcend social, cultural, institutional and geographic boundaries. And we do believe, with our collective endeavor we would co-create knowledge and be able to share, leverage and apply it for a common brighter future.
Queries, e-Consultations and e-Discussions
Below are the current topics being addressed. To participate you must be a member. Go to the Mailgroup page to log in or sign up.
Queries[se-mf][se-food] Query: Urgent-Reply by 22 September 2008. Microfinance for Micro Dairy Enterprises - Experiences; Referrals.
From Kuldeep Sharma, Entrepreneurship and Technology Development Center, Noida
Looks for inputs on microfinance services required for the small dairy entrepreneurs, organizational arrangements, and information on different financial, promotional institutions and Government departments, providing microfinance services to small dairy farmers and their schemes
[se-food] Query : Declining Social Esteem for Farming and Diversity in Foods - Experiences. Reply by 18 September 2008
From P. K. Thampan, Peekay Tree Crops Development Foundation, Kochi
Looks for appropriate strategies for attracting the educated rural youth towards farming as a profession, practical measures to strengthen farming as an ecologically benign and economically rewarding rural enterprise and policy changes needed to promote the production of multiple foods rather than confining to that of only food grains
 
 Improving Nutrition in Schools
Through an intervention by members of the Food and Nutrition Security Community steps were taken to promote consumption of fruits and vegetables to reduce micronutrient deficiencies... read more
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 “There has been a quite active discussion of issues around agricultural diversification and marketing in this group. “The group has played a key role in encouraging discussion between agricultural experts and nutritionists to address the issues of food security and agricultural diversification.” David Radcliffe, DFID, New Delhi | |
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